| | | |
|Territories of British | | | | |
| South Africa Company,| | | | |
| south of the | | | | |
| Zabesi (Matabililand | | | | |
| and Mashonaland) | 142,000 | 7,000(?)| unknown | --- |
| | | (1899) | | |
|_______________________|___________|___________|_____________|___________|
| | | | | |
| _Independent_-- | | | | |
|South African Republic | | | | |
| (Transvaal) | 119,139 | 245,397(?)| 622,500(?)| 867,897 |
| | | | | |
|Swaziland (dependent | | | | |
| on South African | | | | |
| Republic) | 8,500 | 900(?)| 55,000(?)| --- |
| | | | | |
|Orange Free State | 48,326 | 77,716 | 129,787 | 207,503 |
|___________________________________|___________|_____________|___________|
| | | | | |
|Portuguese East Africa | 300,000(?)| 10,000(?)| 3,100,000(?)| --- |
| | | | | |
|German South West | | 2,025 | | |
| Africa | 320,000(?)| (1896) | 200,000(?)| --- |
|___________________________________|___________|_____________|___________|

DATES OF SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA

A.D.
Bartholomew Diaz discovers the Cape of Good Hope 1486
Vasco da Gama explores the East Coast of Africa 1497-8
The Dutch appear in the South African Seas 1595
First Dutch settlement in Table Bay 1652
Arrival of French Huguenot settlers 1689
Beginning of the Exploration of the Interior 1700
First Kafir War 1779
First British